Oklahoma 2025 2025 Regular Session

Oklahoma House Bill HB2150 Introduced / Bill

Filed 01/16/2025

                     
 
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STATE OF OKLAHOMA 
 
1st Session of the 60th Legislature (2025) 
 
HOUSE BILL 2150 	By: Hall 
 
 
 
 
 
AS INTRODUCED 
 
An Act relating to crimes and punishments; making 
certain acts unlawful; providing penalties; defining 
terms; providing for codification; a nd providing an 
effective date. 
 
 
 
 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA: 
SECTION 1.     NEW LAW     A new section of law to be codified 
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 1761.2 of Title 21, unless there 
is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows: 
A.  A person shall not establish an unauthorized camp upon a 
street, sidewalk, or other public or private property within five 
hundred (500) feet of public school or private school property. 
B.  Any person who violates the provisions of this section and 
refuses to vacate the unauthorized camp upon command by a law 
enforcement officer shall , upon conviction, be guilty of a 
misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed Fifty Dollars 
($50.00), or by imprisonment i n the county jail not to exceed one 
(1) year, or by both such fine and impriso nment. 
C.  As used in this section:   
 
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1.  "Private school property " means a school that offers a 
course of instruction for students in one or more grades from 
prekindergarten throu gh grade twelve and is not operated by a 
governmental entity; 
2.  "Public school property " means any publicly owned property 
held for purposes of elementary, secondary or vocational -technical 
education, and shall not include property owned by public school 
districts or where such property is leased or rented to an 
individual or corporation and used for purposes other than 
educational; and 
3.  "Unauthorized camp" means any tent, shelter, or bedding 
constructed or arranged for the purpose of or in such a way to 
permit overnight use on a property not designated as a campsite. 
SECTION 2.  This act shall become effective November 1, 2025. 
 
60-1-10517 GRS 01/08/25